Episode 163: Tesla Eliminates 2 Paint Colors
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2018
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Tesla takes two paint colors off the menu. Can you guess which two? Plus: another Dual Motor Model 3 price increase, executive team changes at Tesla, a new way to buy Model 3 for a select group of reservation holders, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, A Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.3 | Tesla takes two paint colors off of the menu. Can you guess which to? |
| 0:08.3 | Plus, another dual motor model three price increase. Executive team changes at Tesla, a new way to buy |
| 0:15.2 | Model 3 for a select group of reservation holders and more. Oh, What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey with you for episode 163 of the weekly Tesla |
| 0:45.2 | unofficial podcast I call it Ride the Lightning? It is September 16th 2018. Plenty coming up on this week's podcast. |
| 0:54.2 | I wanted to start though with a quick little |
| 0:56.3 | anecdote from the week that just brought a huge smile on my face. |
| 0:59.6 | I'll talk more about the spirit of adventures, |
| 1:01.6 | adventures later on after the news and |
| 1:04.8 | after the Ride the Lighting Hotline but real quick I was taking my daughter to |
| 1:08.3 | school as I do every weekday and we were sort of leaving our neighborhood and I |
| 1:12.2 | came up to a stop, a stop sign and there was a crosswalk there. |
| 1:17.0 | And a mom with, I believe like a, I think she might have had an infant with her, but then she was holding the hand of her |
| 1:23.2 | son a little boy couldn't maybe around five or so and so they're crossing in front of me |
| 1:29.2 | I'm stopped right there and the little boy the boy's just eyeing the car eye in the car and then as |
| 1:34.6 | he's walking by like in a sort of stealth way like up against his body so that |
| 1:39.8 | it's not it's not his hands not sticking out sort of up against his body it's almost like so his mom |
| 1:43.5 | can't see it he's giving a thumbs up like continuously as he walks by and it just I |
| 1:49.2 | had the window down I happen to have the window down, it was a nice morning, put my hand |
| 1:55.2 | arm out and gave him a thumbs up and a big smile. |
| 1:58.3 | We're both smiling and it was just, it was just the coolest thing I have to say because as you know like kids don't have a |
| 2:05.8 | filter either way when they're that little they just you know they're not they're |
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